MAKING AMERICA GREAT
The presidential candidates are pontificating about making America “great.” The Republican candidate in particular has made this a theme of his campaign. Puffing up our alleged greatness is standard political campaign rhetoric. Meaningless sound bites and patriotic cliches are a common campaign strategy. It allows the politicians to avoiding meaningful discussion of actual problems and needed solutions.
There may be good reasons for candidates to avoid specifics. Too often those who did discuss the issues have lost. Policy positions are often complicated and boring. ...
ARE LOWER HEALTH CARE COSTS ON THE WAY?
Last Thursday Wisconsin Citizen Action held a press event in the Marathon County Court House to announce a low “out-of-pocket” health plan.
A local health care insurance company has agreed to this plan: WPS/Arise.
Across the country, the cost of health care has gone up in premiums as well as out-of-pocket dollars. In recent years deductibles alone have risen faster than average wages. Consumers are feeling the pinch at all levels of the health system.
The federal government stepped forward to help consumers reduce high health care costs. The feds designed an ...
WEALTH AND MONEY PART XX: SOLUTION
“There was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very old and everlasting. There were many colors on the hills, and the plain was bright with different-colored clays and sands. Red and blue and spotted horses grazed in the plain, and there was a dark wilderness on the mountains beyond. The land was still and strong. It was beautiful all around.” - - N. Scott Momaday
The picture painted by Momaday is of grace and dignity and beauty. It is a picture of what was and what might be. It is a picture of us and our planet Earth, our ...
CHARACTERISTICS OF A BULLY
1. Impulsive
2. Easily frustrated or annoyed
3. Lacks empathy, isn’t sympathetic to anyone’s needs or desires but their own.
4. Blames a victim for her/his behavior
5. Has difficulty following rules
6. Views violence in a positive way
7. Is motivated by power and the desire to dominate others
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Bullying involves repeatedly hurting a victim with “teasing, name calling, mockery, threats, harassment, taunting, social exclusion or rumors.”
On a national level, these bullying tactics have taken ...
OUTSOURCED WISCONSIN TOUR VISITS KOHL’S IN WAUSAU AREA
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WEALTH AND MONEY PART XIX: AMERICA BECOMES THE HOST
While mentally struggling for an appropriate title for this particular article in the Wealth and Money series, “THE EMPIRE DEVOURS ITSELF” came to mind. But this misses a critical distinction. The people of America are not the corporate and moneyed power structure in control of our government, our military and our economy. They are not the empire. Indeed, the people of America have become the victims of the empire. We are now the “colony.” If we are guilty of any wrongdoing, it is the sin of complacency.
But complacency unwittingly enabled the U.S. corporate and ...
WHAT TO WATCH FOR IN THIS ELECTION
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are getting most of the media attention in this frantic, frazzled presidential race. “Trump and Hillary are taking up all the oxygen, but really policymaking is getting done in the states,” says Nick Rathod, head of SiX (State Innovation Exchange).
Democrats should be on the alert. Since 2010, Democrats lost 913 states legislative seats. Republicans now control 68 of America’s 99 state legislatures—“more than at any time in our history,” according to Jim Hightower, September 2016 LOWDOWN.
There is much more to watch. ...
You are invited to these events coming in this next week
Free and Open to the Public….
You are invited to these events coming in this next week.
Monday, September 19: Town hall with Mary Hoeft, candidate for the 7th Congressional District.
She’ll be at the UWMC Terrace Room from 12:00-1:00.
Sponsored by AAUW (American Association of University Women). Sean Duffy has been invited for a town hall also, but that town hall has not been scheduled at this date.
For more information, phone: 715-518-4147
Tuesday, September 20: Retired educator Mary Jarvis will be addressing the tax payer voucher issue....
CHANGING THE STATE PENSION SYSTEM COULD BE A BILLION DOLLAR MISTAKE
A Wisconsin Retirement Security Forum was held in Wausau. Claiborne Hill of the Wisconsin Coalition for Retirement Security presented some important facts about retirement.
Wisconsin’s State Retirement System is well-funded and in fine shape. It has $100 billion in reserve.
This money is our money. We state employees earned it and our pension is deferred income. Each month we put some money aside in the State Retirement System so that we can have a comfortable retirement.
Our state retirement fund delivers $4 billion a year in benefits to every corner of the ...
